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Note: !MARRIAGE: History of Bergen and Passic Counties, NJ, W Woodford Clayton and
William Nelson, 1882
"David(McDonald) married Mary Seddon, and settled at Fairview, and reared a
large family."(Clayton & Nelson, p. 247)
!DEATH: Newspaper clipping in Bible of Mary Eliza Macdonald.
"McDonald - At Fairview, on Sunday March 25, 1883, David McDonald, Aged 71
years. The relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend his
funeral on Wednesday, March 28, 1883 at two P.M. from his late residence,
Fairview."
Gravemarker - English Neighborhood Reformed Church Cemetery,Ridgefield,NJ
David MacDonald Died March 25, 1883 Aged 71 years and 4 months.
English Neighborhood Reformed Church Cemetery records, Old, lot 55-56
Fairview 75th Anniversary Brochure. - The birth of public school education (in
Fairview) began about "1845 when some fifteen boys and girls met in the basement
of David MacDonald's General store for their first session." p.24 "There is in
possession of the Board of Education a deed showing the conveyance by Aaron O.
Price and his wife, Elizabeth, of a parcel of land fifty feet by one hundred
and fifty feet on the north side of Hurley Avenue to the members of the
Southern District No 3 Board of Trustees at English Neighborhood and that the
said Trustees were James P. Townsend, David MacDonald and John Mabie."
MacDonald elected to membership in first volunteer fire company 6 Mar
1897. Fairview 50th Anniversary Brochure -"The (early) activities of the village
centered about the general store of David MacDonald where the men of the
village met nightly to discuss politics, horses, shooting and fishing and to
sample the famous ales of Beadleston & Woertz which were on tap in the rear
room of the grocery store." "From the best sources available we learn that
among the older families, in fact among the earliest settlers were the Engles,
Sedores, Days, Townsends, Tracys, bartholfs, MacDonalds, Mabies and Wraggs."
Van Valen, J.M., "History of Bergen County, N.J.", p.549. David MacDonald
was one of the original 19 members and one of the first trustees of the Baptist
Church in English Neighborhood(now Fairview) in 1848. In 1864, he was a member
of the building committee to build the first permanent structure. The church
was disbanded in 1880. p548 David McDonald, the father of Jeremiah, the
first victim of cholera, kept a grocery in one part of the old Deezer hotel,
but after the death of Henry Tracy, he purchased the property and continued
business at that stand.
Bergen County Birth Records 1848-1867 show a male child born to David & Mary
MacDonald in Jan 1849 at Bulls Ferry. Record shows father's occupation as
farmer
N.J. Archives Vital Statistics, Vol B,p.418. Death of Jeremiah McDonald 29 Aug
1856, Male, Married, Age 20, Grocer, at English Neighborhood. Parent David
McDonald - Cholera. 4 Sep 1856, Death of Susan McDonald at English
Neighborhood, Female, Single, Age 9. Parent- David McDonald - Cholera
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